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Molten   /mˈoʊltən/   Listen
Molten

adjective
1.
Reduced to liquid form by heating.  Synonyms: liquefied, liquified.



Melt

verb
(past melted; past part. molten; pres. part. melting)
1.
Reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating.  Synonyms: melt down, run.  "Melt down gold" , "The wax melted in the sun"
2.
Become or cause to become soft or liquid.  Synonyms: dethaw, dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw.  "The ice thawed" , "The ice cream melted" , "The heat melted the wax" , "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase" , "Dethaw the meat"
3.
Become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial.  Synonyms: mellow, mellow out.
4.
Lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually.  Synonym: meld.
5.
Become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly.  Synonym: fade.  "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk"
6.
Become less intense and fade away gradually.  Synonyms: disappear, evaporate.  "Her hopes evaporated after years of waiting for her fiance"



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"Molten" Quotes from Famous Books



... dining-hall, honored and venerated among these men who were striving still for the ideal that he had attained. It was a good thought, and made for pride of the right sort. With the entree Mr. Trimmer ordered his favorite vintage champagne, and, as it boiled up like molten amber in the glasses, so sturdily that the center of the surface kept constantly a full quarter of an inch above the sides, he waited anxiously for Bobby to sample it. Even Bobby, long since disillusioned of such things and grown abstemious from ...
— The Making of Bobby Burnit - Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man • George Randolph Chester

... of from three to four hours, during which the crucibles were examined from time to time to see that the metal was thoroughly melted and incorporated, the workmen proceeded to lift the crucible from its place on the furnace by means of tongs, and its molten contents, blazing, sparkling, and spurting, were poured into a mould of cast-iron previously prepared: here it was suffered to cool, while the crucibles were again filled, and the process repeated. When cool, ...
— Industrial Biography - Iron Workers and Tool Makers • Samuel Smiles

... suffuse their spaces with pink and violet. Daffodil and tenderest emerald intermingle; and these colours spread until the west again has rose and primrose and sapphire wonderfully blent, and from the burning skies a light is cast upon the valley—a phantom light, less real, more like the hues of molten gems, than were the stationary flames of sunset. Venus and the moon meanwhile are silvery clear. Then the whole ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds

... may be studied as an example of the second great group of rocks,—the unstratified, or igneous rocks. These are not made of cemented sedimentary grains, but of interlocking crystals which have crystallized from a molten mass. Examining a piece of granite, the most conspicuous crystals which meet the eye are those of feldspar. They are commonly pink, white, or yellow, and break along smooth cleavage planes which reflect the light like tiny ...
— The Elements of Geology • William Harmon Norton

... swarmed; they were crawling all over the tumbler, the table, the bed. The room was filled with the soft, velvety roar of whirring wings beating on wall and ceiling and against the tumbler where Madam Death sat imprisoned, quivering her wings, her eyes two molten rubies, and the ghastly ...
— Barbarians • Robert W. Chambers


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